Man page or keyword search:   man All Sections 1 - General Commands 2 - System Calls 3 - Subroutines, Functions 4 - Special Files 5 - File Formats 6 - Games and Screensavers 7 - Macros and Conventions 8 - Maintenence Commands 9 - Kernel Interface New Commands Server 4.4BSD AIX Alpinelinux Archlinux Aros BSDOS BSDi Bifrost CentOS Cygwin Darwin Debian DigitalUNIX DragonFly ElementaryOS Fedora FreeBSD Gentoo GhostBSD HP-UX Haiku Hurd IRIX Inferno JazzOS Kali Knoppix LinuxMint MacOSX Mageia Mandriva Manjaro Minix MirBSD NeXTSTEP NetBSD OPENSTEP OSF1 OpenBSD OpenDarwin OpenIndiana OpenMandriva OpenServer OpenSuSE OpenVMS Oracle PC-BSD Peanut Pidora Plan9 QNX Raspbian RedHat Scientific Slackware SmartOS Solaris SuSE SunOS Syllable Tru64 UNIXv7 Ubuntu Ultrix UnixWare Xenix YellowDog aLinux   3132 pages apropos Keyword Search (all sections) Output format html ascii pdf view pdf save postscript

MKALIASES(8)			     Local			  MKALIASES(8)

NAME
       mkaliases - build the aliases database for smail from the ASCII source
       file

SYNOPSIS
       mkaliases

DESCRIPTION
       Mkaliases reads the ASCII source file for an aliases database and
       builds the aliases database according to the configuration information
       in /home/ancient/jd/tmp/smail-3.2.0.115/conf/EDITME.  Run this program
       whenever changes have been made to the ASCII source file.  If this pro‐
       gram is not used, smail may not notice the changes that have been made.
       /usr/sbin/newaliases is another name for the mkaliases program and is
       retained for compatibility with BSD sendmail(8) configurations.

       The aliases database can be in a dbm(3X) database, a sorted text file,
       or a plain text file.  In the latter case, the ASCII source file dou‐
       bles as the database file.  In the case of an aliases database accessed
       through the Sun YP service, mkdbm(8) or the sun makedbm(8) program must
       be used to build the YP database.  See the Smail Administration Guide
       (as yet unwritten) for more information on interfacing smail to the YP
       service.

       The mkline(8) program, distributed with smail, is used to remove com‐
       ments and regularize the aliases file.  Then, for sorted databases, the
       mksort(8) program, with the -f option, is used to create the sorted
       database.  For dbm databases, the mkdbm(8) program, again with the -f
       option, is used to create the database.	In either case, care is taken
       to ensure that smail never uses a truncated or partially built data‐
       base.  For plain text databases, a summary of the contents is dis‐
       played, but no changes are actually made.  If the aliases file is
       accessed through the YP service, a messages is displayed stating this
       and no changes are actually made.

FILES
       /etc/aliases   The name of the aliases database.	 This is a plain text
		      file.

       /home/ancient/jd/tmp/smail-3.2.0.115/conf/EDITME
		      The file giving the default configuration for smail.

SEE ALSO
       mkline(8), mksort(8), mkdbm(8), smail(5), smail(8), ypclnt(3), and
       dbm(3X).

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 1987, 1988 Ronald S. Karr and Landon Curt Noll
       Copyright (C) 1992 Ronald S. Karr

       See a file COPYING, distributed with the source code, or type smail
       -bc, to view distribution rights and restrictions associated with this
       software.

Smail-3			       RELEASE-3_2_0_115		  MKALIASES(8)

Vote for polarhome